The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 24, 1937 Page: 1 of 6
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SULPHUR SFIlfacS. TF.XA8, 8UNDAY. JANUARY 24, 1937
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Consolidated with Daily
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Sulphur Springs,
"Wheie the Fruit
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED
280,000 HOMELESS IN FLOOD DISTI
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SHUT-DOWN FIELD,
ROADS IMPASSADLE
TRAFFIC LAWS
TO BE ENFORCED
IN GREENVILLE
A complete shut-down of drilling
activities in the Sulphur Bluff dis-
covery field was put in effect Sat-
urday with the completion Qf the case
setting job on the Hager et al No.
2 Jeff Worsham well. The well
may be brought in early next week
after the concrete sets, operators
have Indicated.
Continued rains and sleet storm*
have made it impossible to move
DISTRICT COURT
CONVENES HERE
MONDAY MORNING
Judge Charles D. Berry of, Creen-
'£”*:vi)Je is scheduled to open the six
*"*! weeks January term of the Hopkins
heavy derricks and machinery in the County Eighth judicial District
field to new drilling locations. Roads rourt here Monday morning at 10
to the field are also impassable. | Following the opening of
There are now 17 producing wells court Jud(t(. Bmy jt expected to
in the Sulphur Bluff field. No'dry nave the grand jury sworti in and
holes have been drilled. j then personally charge the investi-
Drillitig activities are not expect- b(Mjy of iu duties.
Strict enforcement of the city's
traffic ordinance is being urged by
Chief of Police LeRoy Brigman, it
was announced Thursday. Effec-
tive Monday cards summoning all
traffic laws violators to appear at
the police office will be issued, Chief
Brigman declared.
Greenyille moUirlsts are familiar
with the local traffic regulations,
yet many are failing to comply with
them, Chief Brigman stated. The
chief violations referred to
double parking, incorrect ranking,
parking over time, parking in load-
ing xones and restricted zones, speed-
ing and failure to observe red lights.
Chief Brigman stated that this
, ed to begin anew until the weather
clear* and the roads to the field
{haw out and dry.
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(From Optic-Herald.)
> FIRST OF PROPOSED DRILLING
.* PROGRAM
Three'locations which are on hold-
ngs recently acquired from Gulf
Refining Company, have been stak-
ed by Lucey Petroleum Company.
Location is on a tract which is a part
of the Phillips farm southwest of
Taleo and the test is a direct offset
to the Earl Bateman No. I Phillips
brought in several months ago.
Although foundation has been laid,
inability of trucks and teams to
transport machinery ha* caused op-
erations to be suspended until the
groupd dries.
Although several other locations
west of TalcO have been staked, this
Is believed to Se the first of the ma-
jor drilling program announced by
the combined firms of Lucey Petro-
leum Company and Byrd-Frost, Inc.
Te Drill Deep T».t
Information from a icliable source
laic Tuesday evening stated that
Bond and Werby had purchased from
Owens-Maddox and associates the
lease on the F. A. Jones tract four
and a half mile* southwest of Taleo,
in Franklin County where u recent
<i, y hole was drilled, and the lower
Trinity or Rodessa a* soon a* the
roads dry op sufficiently to allow
the machinery to be hauled to the
location.
Crude is being run regularly thru
the pipe line from Sulphui Bluff to
Taleo.
Hedrick No 3 Spudded
As a direct offset to the Humble
No. 1 P. J. Dawson. Lawrence Flan-
nery spudded in his Hedrick No. 2,
two miles west of Ijivada in Frank-
lin County, late Friday night. This
will be the area’s southeast outpost
and is expected to open up a fever-
ish drilling campaign in thus section
in the near future. The Flannery
Hedrick No. 1 was abandoned last
summer after several hundred feet
of drill stem was lost in the hole.
Birthday Naar, For Taleo
As the first anniversary of the
Taleo field nears, producers in the
field are becoming more numerous
and are being added faster as both
major ami independents carry on ex
tended drilling programs.
Completions during last week have
pushed the total to 202 and several
more are expected before the week
ends, although weather conditions
are greatly hampering progress.
Peveto and Hinton completed
their No- H John Hargrove early last
week ami teport a flowing well.
N«w Location*.
Eight n>w locations for the field
have been filed and are aw follow*
Humble Oil & Refining Co. No, 6
Blackburn, McCullough survey.
K * A Oil Co, Taleo townsite
No. 1 King, lot block 33, K. A A.
(Continued on pare alx)
WEATHER
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Eaat Texas.—Partly cloudy, warm-
er in west and north portions, fleet-
ing in »outhe**t portion 8»turd*y
night. Sunday partly clqudy, warm-
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or.
W**t Texas.—Partly cloudy and
. warmer Saturday night and Sunday.
No petit jurors will be called for
the first week. Judge Berry, a* is
his custom, plans to hear non-jury
matters, such as uncontcsted divorce
cases, during the initial week of the
term. A jury to hear civil cases
will be called for the second week.
A fairly heavy eivil docket is fac-
ing the court officials this term, it
appears from an investigation of rec-
ords.
The criminal docket, while not ex-
ceptionally heavy, is expected to con-
tain more cases this term than dur-
ing the preceding August session.
Approximately 30 examining trial
paper* from Precinct^ No. 1 will be
handed to the grand jury.
One cane, involving the fatal shott-
ing of Wooden, is expected to be in-
vestigated. The man was killed on
the Mt. Pleasant highway about four
miles east of Sulphur Spring*, sev-
eral months ago. A man was ar-
rested in connection with the case,
anil was later released under bond.
Hoth the slain and the bonded man
were residents of Frariklin County
at the time of the alleged shooting
District Attorney T. Wad Thomp-
son of Greenville, who was sworn in
to his new duties on January 1. will
be making his first appearance in
Sulphur Springs in the role of pro
secuting attorney. He succeeded
Henry K. Pharr, who held the office
for several terms.
District Clerk Oliver Pharr will
also be working his first term in the
January session of court. He sue
ceeded W. Z Kitts on January I.
A new sheriff, Ed Banister, will
work his first District Court. He
succeeded Clint Reneau.
Near impassable roads in the coun-
ty may hinder the investigations of
the grand jury, because many wit-
nesses may be unable tir'reach town.
Los Angeleh, Calif. Jan. 22. —
J*ames, under sentence to hang for
the rattlesnake torture alaying of
his seventh wife, Mary Busch James,
wants to learn more about what lies
beyond death. '
In the county jail awaiting action
on an appeal, James Thursday asked
two hours each week in which to
study the Bible. His plea was grant-
ed and the jail chaplain assigned
Atkinson, a Bible student, to aid
include him.
“1 waa brought up a hillbilly in the
South,” James, a barber, explained,
“and haven’t much education."
He mu convicted of first thrust-
ing one of his wife’s legs into a box
warning was being issued in an
ef- j containing rattlesnakes and then
fort te be fair with everyone, and! drowning her in a bathtnb. The
declared that after Sunday all vio- ’ State sought to prove he wanted to
lators will be fined 'egardless of ex-'collect her insurance
euses.—-Greenville Herald. *
CONSTABLE SETS
ENDUARNCE RECORD
IN 8 HOUR RUN
Constable Bud Coker of Birth-
right. Precinct 8, set some kind of
an endurance record Friday while
bringing a man to Sulphur Springs
that he had under his arrest. The
"speedy” trip, which normally takes
no longer than 30 minutes at a sane
driving rate, required eight hours
and four minute*.
And the arrested man made bond
and was ready to return to Birth-
right by the time the constable had
farmed at the sheriff's office.
UNCEASING PRAYERS
TO RE STARTED FOR
MISSING CHORISTER
Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 23. —- A
continuous prayer service by mem-
ber* of the Travis Avenue Baptist
Church will begin Saturday at 8:00
a. m. for the safe return of Roland
Leath; 25, church choir director, who
has been missing since Tuesday.
The Rev. C. E. Matthews, pastor,
said the services will be continued
until word is heard from him. Groups
will pray for an hour and then be re-
lieved during the day and night. His
mother and wif*_.r#mained in bed at
the home.
LOCAL RED CROSS
MEET IS CALLED
Dallas, Jan. 22.—Dr. James Q.
Dealey, editor of the Dallas Morning
News, died of heart disease this aft-
ernoon while talking to his brother,
George B. Dealey, president of the
A. H. Belo Corporation, publishers
of the Dallas N.ews and Journal.
Mr. Dealey summoned a physician
when Dr. Dealey slumped in hi*
chair and prone resuscitation was ap-
plied without success.
Dr. Dealey first saw the shores of
Texas from the deck of a ship when
he was 9 years old. The boat brought
him into Galveston which was to be
his home for M years.
^ Dr. Dealey was s member of the
Critic, University, Town snd Gown
Clubs of Dallas, and of the Author’s
Club of London.
Dr, Healey's first connection with
a newspaper was at an early age.
When he went to 'Galveston, with
members of his family from Eng-
land, one of his first jobs wa» office
boy for the Galveston News,
Dr. Dealey is survived by his
widowp Dr. J, Q. Dealey Jr., Clin-
ton, N. ¥., and William L. Deaey,
Dallas; two slaughters, Mr*. Guerney
Edwards, Providence, R. and Mr*.
August Dvorak, Seattle, Wash.; two
brothers, George fi. and C. L. Dea-
ley, Dali**; a sitter, Mrs. F. W.
Boyle, Santa Monica, Calif.
Funerail arrangements are pendingT
Dr. Dealey has been editor of the
Dallas News since 1029. He main-
tained an active interest in his col-
lege affiliations, however, and was
« member of the American Political
Science Association, American S$-
ciologiral Science Association, Insti-
tute Internationale de Socipalogie,
and wan president of the Southwest-
ern Social Science Association from
1M8 to 1M4.
He was author of A number of
hooks dealing with the Mate and the
Constitution, as well as with the
family and sociological aspects.
He also wan th# nathor of a book
on the foreign policies of the United
States.
DEAD INCREASED
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ill
JAPAN CABINET
RESIGNS OVER
POLITICAL ISSUES
A—onmtfd P'ltrt
Tokyo, Jan. '33.—Japan’s Cabinet
resigned today, Premier Hiiato be-
ing unable to reach a compromise
between military leaders and politic-
al parties. Political parties forced the
issue. opposing military bureaucracy
Hirota is expected to request Em-
peror Hirohijo to extend suspension
of the Diet to allow formation of a
new cabinet.
CASE WORKER?
CAN'T BE PAID
BY COUNTY
PEBELS CONTINUE
BOMBARD CITY
OF MADRID
(By PrttMt
premier Blum of France prepared
to demand a halt in the "feverish”
German armsrnrnt* program, and
Italy and Germany considered a
guarantee of Belgian territorial in-
tegrity in moves holding the atten-
tion of European diplomats today.
Authoritative sources *ai<* that
Premier Blum would ask a Cessation
rn rearmament as a guarantee of
good faith toward the Franco-Ger-
man, economic and political agree-
ments
In the Spanish eivil war. the gov-|
ernment made air raid* on insurgent j
stronghold*. The* insurgents maneuv-
ered for the rapture of Malaga,
strategic Mediterranean port,.and re-
newed their assault on Madrid.
The government charged that sea-
planes, ba-ed on a German warship,
bombed ari airbase on the southern
coast.
RUSSIA OPENS
TRIAL OF 17 WHO
FACE EXECUTION
Roll Call Chairman Weber H.
Fouls of the Hopkins County Amcri-
can Red Cro.«|i has issued a rati fdr
committees to meet Monday morn-
ing at 9:30 o'clock at the Chamber
of Commerce rooms to begin an
emergency .drive to solicit additional
funds.
The emergency drive funds will be
forwarded to the Red Cross officials,
and they, in turn, will send the mon-
ey to districts to buy food and cloth-
ing, for the flood-stricken people of
eight States.
The workers requested to attend
the meeting follow: Treble Clef Club.
Mr*. Roger Plumrner, Mrs, Klough
Williams, Mr*. Huell Bridge*. Mrs.
Continued on Par* Six
COUNTY COURT
IS ADJOURNED
BY JUDGE WYATT
DANA X. BIBLE
ACCEPTS PLAGE
AS TEXAS COACH
IBt A—orMUW Prtu'
Lincoln, Nehr„ Jan. 23.—Dnnft
X. Bible, Nebraska coach, today ac-
cepted the position of athletic direc-
tor and head football coach at Tex-
as Univeralty.
Bible was elected by the Board of
Regent* Thursday.
PUSHING PLANS
FOR ROOSEVELT
GALL SATURDAY
"Dance that other* might walk"
has been selected as the slogan for
the third annual President Roosevelt
Ball, to be staged in Sulphur Springs
oh Saturday night, January 30.
“The Campus Serenaders," all-
girl* orchestra from TSCW, Denton,
has been signed to furnish the mu-
sic for the occasion.
J. K. Brim, general chairman of
the ball, states a ticket drive will
be started Monday. Chairman Brim
has set the ttcVel sales drive at I,-
000.
SUNSHINE FOLLI
COLD WAVE II
THE PANHANDLE
Judge J, A. Wyatt adjourned the
January three weeks term of the
Hopkinti County Court Saturday.
The session was unusually quiet, with
but a few civil and criminal ■ case*
being brought to trial,
While a jury panel was summoned
during the final week of court, the
jurors were not used as.no congested
case* on the docket were ready for
hearing.
ROADS OVER COUNTY
ARE IMPASSABLE
(Bn AmctaM Prim)
Sunnhine in the Panhandle today
presaged moderation of the cold
wave which brought freezing tem-
peratures as far south as Corpus
Christl. i
Most of the State continued to
register freezing temperatures and
the let-up is expected tp be slow,
No serious interruptions In trans-
portation and communications has
been reported.
The Rio Grande Valley’* citrus
crop escaped damage.
throughout Northeast
Austin—The Attorney General’.*
Department has announced a ruling
that cake workers supervising feder-
al surplus 'commodities distribution
could not he paid out of county
funds. T’-*'
Joe Alsup, assistant who wrote the
opinion, said it was based on one
written by the preceding Attorney
General's Department. That decision
held that many relief recipient* did
nof come within the Texae constitu-
tional inhibition of paupers and coun-
ties, therefore, were without power
to spend money to aid them.
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Moscow, Jan. 23.—Russia opened
the trials of seventeen once high Bol-
shevists today with report of ’’full
confessions” to plot of partition in
Russia between-Germany and Japan,
and to aid Japan with Soviet oil in
the event that the nation went to
war adth the United States.
Karl Radek, man of letters, and
sixteen accused co-plotter* face
execution if convicted. It is alleged
they conspired with the exiled Leon
Trotzky to overthrow the Jo*e|
Stalin regime,
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Texas were reported dangerously j was moving at a snail’s pace. The
slippery Saturday and, in many highway was reported slippery
counties, several state maintained j throughout the Northeast Texas reg-
roads were declared impassable. lion.
Highway crew* working out of the : The Sulphur Springs to Cooper
Sulphur Springs division were being highway was closed to traffic Friday
held on the job in shift* that Iran (night. It was opened Saturday, but
| 24 hour* a day. Employe* were' pa-; few driver* were braving the almost
1 trolling the highways lending help ; impassable road,
i to stranded tourists and warning oth- j’ The road to Commerce was open
of the -dangerous conditions of j Saturday, but the asphalt-topped
Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 23,-—
Winter slugged the »600,000,000
California citrus fruit industry Fri-
day with it* hardest blow in twenty-
four years.
Damage from the worst freeze
since 1913 may total at least 50 per
cent of the current crop of oranges,
lemons and grapefruit, value unesti-
mated. Temperatures in the heart of
the 250,000-acre citrus empire drop-
ped as low as 18 degrees.
Two men and a boy died of burns
in a desperate fight waged through-
out the citrus belt with oil-fueled or-
chard heater* to save the trees, if
not the fruit. At least three other
persons were burned seriously,
Two Degrees Under 1922.
Smoke from 1,000,000 barrels of
oil burned in heaters until long aft-
way was open Saturday, but trafficker daylight formed a great blackish
pali over much of Southern Califor-
nia. Near-twilight conditions prevail-
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the road*.
W M Heathr local State High-
way Engineer, reported Saturday
that the Quitman highway, via Yan-
tis, was impassable. Signs warn-
ing tourist# were placed on the road.
The tourist# were advised to drive by
Winnsboro and thence to Quitman.
Highway employe# were stationed
near Winnsboro pulling traffic over
a one and half-mile gap of road that
remains unimproved.
The Broadway of America higb-
highway was ice-coated and danger-
ously slick.
Farm-to-markrt and lateral road*
in Hopkins County were reported in
probably the worst condition of th*
season. Few cars were being driven
over them Saturday—
The temperature, whieh report#
say dropped below the 20-degree
mark Friday night, was hovering
around 22 degrees Saturday morn-
ing. It rose only a few notches dur-
ing the day.
od in Loc Angeles uhtil midsfternoon.
Automobile headlights and lighting
of homes and offices were required
in the orchard areas, where visibil-
ity was one city black.
The 18-degree low ta two degree*
under the official low of 1922, when
half the citrus crop was destroyed.
Practically the entire crop waa lost
in the 1913 freeze, in which citru*
belt minimum temperatures wert not
recorded.
In Imperial Valley, rich citrus and
vegetable area near the Mexican bor
der, the temperatures sagged aa low
at I £. This 1* 100 degraes below oc
rational summer heat marks there.
It was feared mo4f of the valley’s
early vegetable*, aa well aa fruit,
were ruined.
(Bn AuoetotU fresat
Over 280,000 persons were ho:
less today as the Nation’s flood zone
spread. Tb« number of dead Increas-
ed to twbnty.
.Rescue agencies poured supplies
Into twelve Stale* to prevent disease.
Bitter cold added to the suffering
but acted to stay a rise of the water*.
The Red Crosa launched a |2,-
000,000 campaign for relief. Coaat
Guard mobilized additional men and
boats.
Four persona were dead in each
Ohio and Tennessee; three in Illinois,
two each In Weet Virginia, Kentucky
and Missouri and one each in Miezla-
sippi, Pennsylvania and Arkansas.
President Roosevelt Issued a proc-
lamation asking the nation to rakm
two million dollar* a* "minimum re-
lief.”
Five million dollarz property dam-
age waa done and 58,000 persons
were homeless In the Cincinnati area.
Milk and food shortage was feared
at Portsmouth, Ohio, where 20,000
refugees need aid.
Muddy flood* of the great Ohio
and Mississippi riven rose far out
of their banks Friday night and en-
gulfed qoast fertile plain* and popu-
lous cities.
' At least sixteen peraon* were re-
ported dead and property damage
mounted into millions of dollar*.
Severity of the flood*, already un-
precedented in several n1*c**, ap-
peared to be increasing a* dripping
skies continued to pour water into
the raging torrtnt* and their tribu-
taries. <
Relief worker* estimated at leaat
126,000 persona were homeleas in the.
eleven States affected.
From headwaters in Upper Penn-
sylvanie, th* Ohio flood swept into
Pittsburgh's famed Golden Triangle,
down through the fertile valley* of
the State of Ohio, intp the edge of
Kentucky's blue grass- region at
Louisville and on to Cairo, 1U„ where
it poured into the swollen MUsisaip-
pi.
Tributaries of the two rivers in
West Virginia, Indiana, llllnola, Ten-
nessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana
and Mississippi flowed with Increas-
ing fury.
Fifteen thousand Louisville real-
dents were homeless as th* Ohio Riv-
er drove higher in the worst flood in
the city’s history. Each hour aaw
more refugee* turning their backs
on their home*. Th* awfrling, murky
waters have inundated more than a
third of the buiinesa district. Five
thousand home* were without fur-
nace heat because basements were
flooded.
Rainfall in 53 hour* her* totaled
p.24 inches, a record unequaled in
the history of the Louisville Weather
Bureau. A rainfall her* of 3.34 Inch-
es in 24 hours was the heavieet in
the country. *
Mayor Neville Miller renewed hi*
plea to state official# at Frankfort
to send National Guardsmen here.
Col. George M. Cheseheir mustered
300 men from Louisville and said he
would try to get more. A small de-
tachment from th# Fort Knox Army
Post arrived.
All street car service was discon-
tinued at 4 p. m. Elevator* stopped
in all building* at th* same time to
preserve electric power for emergen-
cies.
Five hundred city blocks were un-
der water and more were expected to
be flooded by morning as Prof. J_J* .
Kendall, U. 8. meteorologist, predict-
ed a river crest of 65 feet hjC'SUK*
day He acid the sleet and colder
weather which cam* tonight would
reduce the river’* rapid riae.
The temperature dropped to 20
degree*, adding to the suffering of
those driven from their homes,
N* Relief la Sight.
Rain or snow waa falling over a
large part of th# affected are*. Low,
overhanging clouda gave warning the
flood sufferer* could expect no im-
mediate relief.
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Bagwell, J. S. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 24, 1937, newspaper, January 24, 1937; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth825869/m1/1/: accessed April 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.